SanDisk Rolls out Flash Hard Drives
SanDisk wants to replace the hard drive in notebooks with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin laptops faster and more reliable.
SanDisk on Thursday released a 32GB drive for commercial notebooks that stores information on flash memory chips rather than the magnetic platters that make up a traditional hard drive. The drive is available only to manufacturers, and the company declined to give out pricing or identify any notebook makers that will adopt it, but SanDisk said notebooks sporting the drive could come out in the first half of 2007.
We should see this kind of flash will go to mobile devices, (UMPC Samsung already has the flash “hard drive” available) when the price starts dropping. Hopefully for now the casing shows the same size as the laptop drive for compatibility to current Laptop form factor and the real hardware can be much smaller than the size shown.
[Source: News.com]
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